Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator and muralist active in the early to mid 20th century. He was a notable artist among the group collectively identified as the Harlem Renaissance. Much of his work centered on social issues affecting African Americans and often utilized African motifs, as well as Jazz-age imagery and Cubist and…
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Eye Candy for Today: Alma Tadema’s In a Rose Garden
In a Rose Garden, Lawrence Alma Tadema Oil on panel; roughly 15 x 20 inches (37 x 50 cm). Link is to Wikimedia Commons page from which you can access a larger image. This was sold through Christies in 2012, so I assume it’s currently in a private collection. The painter reveled in flowers and…
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The Watercolor World
It’s sometimes easy to forget that painting and drawing once served the function we now assign to photography of recording places and events for reference or posterity. Watercolor, a portable medium that could easily be used for location painting, was a favored vehicle for reportage and documentary subjects. A recently established UK based non-profit project…
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Antonio Segura Donat (Dulk)
Antonio Segura Donat is a Spanish artist who often works under the pseudonym Dulk, which he adopted originally for use as a street artist and muralist. Dulk creates images that blend aspects of magic realism and fantasy, often with themes of animals, and in particular, birds. He works in a variety of traditional media, paint,…
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R Gregory Summers
R. Gregory Summers is a plein air painter working in the Kansas City area. He takes on plain air subjects both natural and man made with sharp, abbreviated notation and rich painterly brushwork. His subjects range from the close and familiar to places from his travels in other parts of the world, like Australia and…
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Eye Candy for Today; Durer’s Tuft of Cowslips
Tuft of Cowslips, Albrecht Durer Gouache on vellum; roughly 8 x 7 inches (19 x 17 cm); in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC, which has zoomable and downloadable images. There is also a zoomable version on the Google Art Project. Like his more well known but equally wonderful “Large Piece of…